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Changing determinants of african mineworker mortality: Witwatersrand ...

En comparant les changements intervenus dans les causes de décès au sein de deux des plus grandes compagnies minières d'Afrique, il est possible de mieux cerner les caractéristiques des forces productives et les différences dans les politiques médicales de ces compagnies. Tant le "Corner House Group" de Witwatersrand que l'Union Minière du Katanga ont été réticents à rendre public ...

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Black history in Phoenix: 10 important historical, cultural buildings

The Dunbar School (701 S. Ninth Ave.), built in 1925, used to host the annual Juneteenth celebration starting in the late 1960s before that event moved to Eastlake Park. The Washington School ...

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Uranium Mining | Atomic Heritage Foundation

The demand for uranium mining and men to work those mines skyrocketed in the early days of the Manhattan Project, and would become one of its enduring legacies. Uranium Mining. Uranium mining began on a large scale in the Czech Republic in the late 19th century as a way to procure ores for use in Marie Curie's studies to isolate radium.

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The World of European Labour on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1940 ...

The mining companies had been pressing the colonial administration and the British Government to take action since late 1940, and furnished them with incriminating evidence against Maybank from the Chamber of Mines in Western Australia, which was added to the case against him. ... Footnote 132 Although their strikes in 1940 threw thousands of ...

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The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot - Smithsonian Magazine

The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot. The mountains of southern West Virginia are riddled with coal—and bullets. Lorraine Boissoneault. April 25, 2017. Child coal miners with mules in Gary ...

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Mining in Africa - World Bank

3.1 Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining 70 4.1 Small-Scale Mining Poses Challenges for Identifying Impacts of Large-Scale Mines 99 4.2 Effect of a Mine Opening on Access to Sanitation in Mali 125 Figures 1.1 GDP Growth by Country Groups, 2000-14 2 1.2 Mine Openings, 1870-2014 2 1.3 Human Development Index Scores in Selected African

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The World of European Labour on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1940 ...

mining companies. In many ways, the white mineworkers' struggle in the 1940s discussed in this article form part of the background to Phimister's account, as it was these struggles which secured the high wages enjoyed in the 1950s and brought about the introduction of a colour bar. Phimister's

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Nigerian Coal Corporation - Wikipedia

The Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC) is a Nigerian parastatal corporation responsible for mining and selling coal. It is based in Enugu. [1] Contents 1 Origin 2 Production problems and decline of coal 3 Today 4 Mines 5 References Origin [ edit] In 1909, coal was discovered in Enugu, Nigeria. The Ogbete drift mine opened six years later.

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The Impact of Colonial Development Debates on the HR policies of ...

1 the impact of colonial development debates on the hr policies of imperial business in ghana and nigeria, 1940-1960 stephanie decker aston business school [email protected] abstract colonial practices of managing labour were becoming the target of critical scrutiny by the colonial office and the wider public in the middle of the .

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Nigeria projects a five-year exponential growth in its mining sector ...

Nigeria's mining industry experienced a boom between 1940 to late-1960s and was globally recognized as a major producer of tin, columbite, and coal. But the discovery of oil as of 1957 caused a decline in output in the sector.

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The African Mine workers strike of 1946 - sahistory.za

In 1940, at the instigation of Ray Alexander at the CPSA's annual conference, the party tasked its Johannesburg District Committee with helping the mineworkers organise. But the party, with a total membership of 280 in 1940, was unable to work with the miners, half of whom were from neighbouring countries.

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ISSUES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA by Ntogela Masilela The initial ...

South Africa: 1895-1940 . Like practically everything else in South Africa, in which the economy is directly determinant, the evolution, the structure and the ideological complications of the South African cinema is to be explained in the context of the historical intractables and the social contradictions that were the outcome of the mining

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(PDF) Panya: Economies of Deception and the Discontinuities of ...

Panya: Economies of Deception and the Discontinuities of Indentured Labour Recruitment and the Slave Trade, Nigeria and Fernando Pó, 1890s-1940s. African Economic History, 2016. Enrique Martino. Download Download PDF. Full PDF Package Download Full PDF Package. This Paper. A short summary of this paper.

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Mining industry in Africa - statistics & facts | Statista

Projected number of mining and infrastucture projects in Africa 2003-2030. Show all statistics (4) Precious metal production. Platinum mine production in Africa 2011-2021. Palladium mine ...

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Companies and businesses - The National Archives

A company is a legal entity with a separate identity from those who own or run it. All companies are businesses but not all businesses, legally speaking, are companies. There are numerous different types of companies in the UK and to utilise the records we hold it will help to understand the following concepts and distinctions: 2.1 Incorporation

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'Taconite: History of Erie Mining Company' a true gem

Erie opened in 1957. The total cost seemed astronomical — $300 million — and it would take four years. The mine and plant near Aurora and the new town called Hoyt Lakes, named for a mining engineer named Elton Hoyt II, used 50,000 pounds of structural steel, 370,000 cubic yards of concrete, 122 miles of railroad track between Erie and the ...

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Mining: a brief history | Statistics South Africa

Mining's contribution to total economic production climbed in the 1970s to peak at 21% in 1980 1. Contributing to the upward surge in 1980 was a relatively high gold price. In other words, for every R100 that the South African economy produced that year, R21 was due to mining. In 1987, employment in the industry peaked at just over 760 000 ...

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Shaft sinking from 1940 to 1970: The golden age - Canadian Institute of ...

Secoroc started production on a small scale in 1940, and the first cemented carbide bit was produced in 1943. During the 1950s and 1960s development continued for extension drill rods. In the 1960s, drill steel manufacturing in Sweden was restructured, giving rise to two companies - Secoroc and .

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Johannesburg - Buildings Of 1886 - 1940 - From Mining Camp To ...

Johannesburg - Buildings Of 1886 - 1940 - From Mining Camp To Metropolis in the Africana Books category was sold for R400.00 on 15 Dec at 15:52 by voldermort in Cape Town (ID:52220587)

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Appalachian Cultural Resources Workshop Papers (Coal Mining In The ...

In this early example of state subsidies for industry, the state government abandoned laissez-faire principles and underwrote coal mining and aided coal companies by minimizing costs, Competition and risk. The majority of leased convicts were African Americans. The use of these black convicts was, moreover, a calculated move on the part of TCI.

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Mining vehicles - a ride through time - Mining Technology

2013 - The biggest dump truck. The world's biggest dump truck, the Belaz 75710, weighs in at an incredible 496t. It was developed by Belaz, a mining manufacturing company from Belarus, in 2013, and sales began in 2014. At 20.6m-long, 8.16m-high and 9.87m-wide, the house-sized truck was the first to be able to transport more than 450t.

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Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act 21 of 1940

The Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act 21 of 1940 intends: the display of advertisements outside certain urban areas at places visible from public roads, and. the depositing of disused machinery or refuse and the erection of structures near certain public roads, and. to amend the National Roads Act, 1935 (repealed in 1971).

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Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s | South African History Online

Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s. The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner "Boer" controlled Transvaal Republic transformed the agricultural-based economy into a segregated White-controlled capitalist industrial society and over the next two decades into the ...

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"Working in the grave": Mining accidents on the Witwatersrand gold ...

South African Journal of Economic History Volume 7, 1992 - Issue 2. Journal homepage. 20 Views 0 ... Mining accidents on the Witwatersrand gold mines c1900-1940 References; Citations Metrics;

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Seymour Schulich (b. 1940) - Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

The company grew from an initial market capitalization of $2.3 million in 1983 to more than $3 billion in 2002, when it merged with Newmont Mining. Schulich was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned a B.Sc. degree from McGill University in 1961. Upon graduation he joined Shell Oil where he acquired his affinity for the oil business.

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Mining Share Scrip • 1940 • Lancefield (WA) Gold Mine - eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for WA • Mining Share Scrip • 1940 • Lancefield (WA) Gold Mine • 100 Shares at the best online prices at eBay! ... Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Anguilla, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast ...

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Nigeria - Mining Africa

Minerals:Gold, columbite, wolframite, tantalite, bitumen, iron ore and uraniume Independence: 1 October 1960 Area: 923,768 km2 Mining fact: Despite massive mineral wealth, the Nigerian mining industry is vastly underdeveloped and only accounts for 0.3% of the country's GDP - and this due to oil resources. The underdevelopment is resulting in Nigeria having to import processed minerals ...

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The Georgia Gold Rush - the DLG B

From the From the "Thar's gold in them thar hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s Collection. The gold rush died down in the 1840s, when the remaining hard-rock gold veins became more difficult and dangerous to mine. Miners could no longer expect to make a decent living deposit mining, and, beginning in 1849, many relocated to ...

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Italian Immigration in the American West : 1870-1940 - Google Books

Kenneth Scambray is the author of A Varied Harvest: The Life and Works of Henry Blake Fuller (1987), The North American Italian Renaissance: Italian Writing in America and Canada (2000), Surface Roots: Short Stories (2003), and Queen Calafia's Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel (2007). Since 1978 he has served as the book and film critic for L'Italo-Americano.

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(PDF) Mining the Reefs and Cays: Coral, Guano and Rock Phosphate ...

Coral mining - which has not previously been documented for the Great Barrier Reef - also occurred in at least twelve locations between 1900 and 1940 with the result that thousands of tons of ...

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California State Library::California History Room

African American Episcopal Church ephemera, ca. 1890s. ... Mining Companies Miscellany, 1900-1935 ... United Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary, Paradise, California, records, 1940-1965 ...

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Lead and Zinc Mining - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Some 300 tons of silver-lead ore raised in 1848-1849 were refined in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Wales. The Kellogg Mine included Arkansas's deepest mine shaft (1,125 feet deep) by 1940 when mining there ceased. The Arkansas legislature in 1857 authorized a geological survey of the state. Newly appointed state ...

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Roslyn, Cle Elum, and Ronald Oral History Interviews

He describes his own work in the No. 3 Mine, including mining methods, safety, labor unions, and operations at the Northwestern Improvement Company (NWI). The cover image depicts a mine rescue team consisting of volunteers in training behind the NWI offices in Roslyn, circa 1940s. Art Darby is the second from the right.

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Our history | BHP

Broken Hill Proprietary's rich history began in a silver, lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Australia. Incorporated in 1885, BHP engaged in the discovery, development, production and marketing of iron ore, copper, oil and gas, diamonds, silver, lead, zinc and a range of other natural resources. BHP was also a market leader in value-added ...

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The 1940s Business and the Economy: Chronology - Encyclopedia

The 1940s Business and the Economy: Chronology1940: January 9 In Chicago, a federal circuit court rules that Inland Steel Corporation does not have to recognize the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee as the sole agent for bargaining with workers.1940: October 24 The forty-hour workweek begins, two years after it was passed as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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Urban Research in a Hostile Setting: Godfrey Wilson in Broken Hill ...

in Northern Rhodesia (hereafter Essay)1 in the early 1940s challenged prevailing views of the colonial administration and mining companies concerning migrant 1 G. Wilson, An Essay on the Economics of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia, Parts I and II, Rhodes-Livingstone Papers 5 and 6 (1941 and 1942) (Manchester: Manchester University Press ...

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Colonialism in the Congo Basin, 1880-1940 - Swallow Press

The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism By Raymond E. Dumett. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth—including the Gold Coast of West Africa.

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AND THE POLICING OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN 1940s SOUTH AFRICA*

the 1940s', International Journal of African Historical Studies, 21 (1988), pp. 21-61. ... workforce, including in the all-important mining sector, with uncontrollable ... business interests upon state policy-that is attractive across the ideological spectrum. To the economically orthodox, the suspension demonstrates how the

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Roots of Apartheid: South Africa's Mining Industry

While apartheid in South Africa was formalized in law in the late 1940s, the seeds for its creation were established years beforehand. The mining industry, especially, spurred the creation of laws and practices in South Africa which progressively disenfranchised the country's indigenous black peoples. At the behest of the

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BISBEE DISTRICT ARIZONA DIRECTORY Copper mining businesses residents 1940

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